On Tuesday 17 December 2013 21:04:34 Zoltán Balogh wrote: > On 12/17/2013 01:23 AM, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > On 16 December 2013 18:14, Michael Zanetti > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Monday 16 December 2013 15:28:23 Thomas Voß wrote: > >>> I think the policy and guideline is pretty simple: For every new > >>> project that Canonical is upstream for, we will default to CMake > >>> (language/runtime-specific build systems aside). With that, all > >>> developers benefit from cross-build support and best possible > >>> integration with the overall system, thereby easing local testing on > >>> devices and in the emulator. > >> > >> What are the plans for integrating this into QtCreator? So far using the > >> wizard to create a new Ubuntu application creates a qmake project. Also > >> the > >> rest of the cmake integration in QtCreator is not quite complete yet. > >> > >> While I personally like cmake a lot and am happy to use it for projects > >> where we're upstream, I'm not really sure how this would work for our > >> app development offering yet. > >> > >> Are we planning to improve QtCreator's cmake support or will we ship a > >> QtCreator style arm chroot for compiling qmake projects in there? > > > > click command-line tool has merged support for setting up, managing > > and cross-compiling code in chroots. > > > > I believe SDK team is working on integrating both CMake into the > > default templates and integrating cross-compile in a click chroot + > > install & launch click in the emulator for testing. And Zoltan already > > had a PPA up with a preview of some of this work. > > The cmake support with crossbuild feature is on its way. Most likely it > will be a two staged delivery. As a first step I will make the cmake > template of the QML plugins and add a hot-key (similar to the Ctrl-F12 > deployment) to build the project. The real deal will be to integrate it > to the QtCreator's own project handling and process manager. That is not > a trivial job if we do not want to duplicate the already existing cmake > plugin or fork the QtC's project handling.
That sounds awesome. I know that this is really not something trivial but rather a really nasty and complex task. Hence my concerns in the other mail. But it seems you got it covered :) > > The beta testing will be a bit easier as the Ubuntu Touch emulator > integration to the QtCreator just landed on the SDK Release PPA > (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-sdk-team/+archive/ppa) and soon will be > pushed to Trusty. I'd be happy to give it a shot. Thanks, Michael -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
